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leveymg

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10. Read "A Clean Break" (1996), US neocon plan for regime changes across MENA and the Levant.
Sun Jan 13, 2013, 01:57 PM
Jan 2013

That document was prepared in 1996 for PM Benjamin Netanyahu by the same crew that later manned the Office of Special Plans (OSP), a Mossad-linked disinformation office within Rumsfeld's Pentagon, that provided much of the phony intelligence that justified Bush's invasion of Iraq and carried out an effort to do the same in Iran (see, the related Larry Franklin-AIPAC-OSP espionage case). See, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clean_Break:_A_New_Strategy_for_Securing_the_Realm

According to Clean Break document -- authored by Perle, Wurmser, Feith and others -- in the process of promoting regime change across the region, Israel would break its subservient relationship to Washington and form a new strategic alliance with the Sunni Arabs and revive the Shi'ia dynasty of the Jordanian Heshamites to challenge and overcome the Iran-centered Shi'ite center of power in the Gulf.

That describes exactly what is happening. The thing that may have been unanticipated is how the Saudi and Gulf Arabs would outrun the ability of Jerusalem, Washington and NATO to manage the Sunni uprising. After some in Washington pushed along the process in Libya and Syria, the Arab intel agencies and their paramilitaries are now pretty much running the show. The Jihad is spreading.

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